6 Reasons Why A Person Is Deprived From Knowledge — al-Imām ibn al-Qayyim
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The Imām Ibn al-Qayyim - رحمه الله - enumerated six causes by way of which deprivation from knowledge occurs.
The First: Leaving off asking (beneficial questions)
The Second: Poor listening and failure to give an attentive ear.
The Third: Poor understanding.
The Fourth: Failure to memorise (what is learned).
The Fifth: Not spreading and teaching it. For whosoever hoards his knowledge and does not spread nor teach it, Allāh will try him with forgetting (his knowledge) and its departure from him.
The Sixth: Failure to act upon it; Since acting upon it necessitates remembering, reflecting, observing its rights and revising it, so when (the individual) neglects acting upon it, he will forget it.¹
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¹ - Miftāḥ Dār as-Sa’ādah (1/492-493) & Ghidhā’ al-Albāb of as-Sāfarīnī (1/44), benefit shared by al-ʿAllāmah ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Bukhārī
Translation: MiU Editorial
22 Ṣafar 1447 (هـ) • 16 August 2025 (مـ)
